nicate them to your Lordship; and if this is not satisfactory, I beg your Lordship to acquaint me in what form most agreeable to your Lordship I may apply to him; but of that, I dare say, there is no need. My Father destroyed most of his unnecessary. papers, and I did the same after his death; but there are some left regarding his conduct in some instances of his duty as Bishop of Winchester. If your Lordship will please at any time to let me know the subject you want to refer to, I can immediately see if the Bishop left any papers relative to it; and they, or any I have, shall be entirely at your Lordship's command.-I hope your Lordship will favour me with your times and places of Visitation as soon as possible, that we may send out our summonses in good time, and our prohibition of the Archdeacon's Jurisdiction, which is always for two months; during which time all Probates of Wills, &c. are referred to our office; and the business of Visitation all finished.-The Decanal Dignity of poor Crespin is just in proportion to the Income (not the Title) of the office; for which he will scarce receive 40l. per annum. I find his predecessor has left behind him a widow, and a daughter by a former wife, in very deplorable circumstances -Your Lordship has lately seen some little squirts at my Father's character in the St. James's Evening Post. To one of which Dr. Butler sent me the inclosed answer, which your Lordship will be so obliging as to return to me. I thought it proper your Lordship should see all that a worthy member of your own Cathedral says in palliation of a very young frolick. As to the rest of the squirts, the Printer seems to have put an end to them, at present at least but I am informed the subject of the unprinted Letter, from a Vicar, is my Father's ordaining his Footman, or his Coachman, I know not which; which your Lordship must think as false, as the rest is groundless and malicious. I almost wish that had appeared, as it would have shewn the violent spirit of the writer, and what such men are capable of saying, whatever they believe. I suspect some abettor of Fournier* to be at the bottom of all this nonsense. As I have better health than I have had for some years, these matters have no manner of effect upon me. I remember the time when they would. I thank your Lordship for the venison, but this year it is all Mr. Moyle's, as I took his whole share the last year.Our respects wait upon your Lordship and Mrs. Thomas and all the family; and I remain, my Lord, your Lordship's most obliged, &c. J. HOADLY." P. 147, note, l. 8, for" was" read "way.' P. 179. Dr. Paul Wright is thus noticed by Mr. Cole: "He is Rector of Oakley, near Saffron-Walden, in Essex; and in 1769 at the Commencement at Cambridge, printed bills for a new Edition, with Additions, of Sir Henry Chauncey's History of Hertfordshire. He then plagued me for assistance in it; but I soon found him to be a most odd and extravagantly ridiculous person, and by no means qualified to undertake such a work. He wanted me and others in the University to sign a paper of • Who had attempted to defraud Bp. Hoadly. See vol. II.293; vol. III. 139. recom a recommendation to be received a Member of the Antiquarian Society, which I declined: however he got one somewhere; for, in Dec. 1770, he was admitted a Fellow of that Society. He is a married man; and has a son jeweller, or goldsmith, in London (where the father was born), and educated in St. Paul's school, as he told me: he then gave me a printed bill to find his shop, if I wanted anything in his way. He has since printed a book on Heraldry" (Mr. Cole means a new edition of Heylin's Help to History).-At the Commencement, 1788, he proceeded P. D. Dr. Colman, the new Master of Bene't College, told me, July 5, that he called upon him, to see the book of St. Alban's, which he had to his chamber, and shewed it to him; but he could not read it, though the most distinct and legible hand I have met with. He told him, he meant to visit him on Abp. Parker's Anniversary, Aug. 6. The Master told him, that he should be then in Dorsetshire. Indeed I have met with few people of his assurance. I was told, July 23, 1778, that he was Rector of Snoring in Norfolk. To publish himself in the Cambridge Chronicle Rector of Snoring and Vicar of Ugly, would have excited a laugh in the University; so when he put himself into the papers, D. D. and F. A. S. he suppressed the Rectory. His wife is thus noticed on a mural monument in the chancel, of Oakley Church : Mary the wife of Paul Wright, M. A. Vicar, and daughter of Charles Bridgeman, Gent. Alderman and twice Mayor of Hertford. She was a dutiful child, an affectionate and prudent wife ; a tender and indulgent parent; a kind mistress; a firm friend; a sincere Christian. These virtues procured her love and esteem, and have prepared her for a glorious resurrection. She died Nov. 14, 1760, aged 49 years.'" P. 212, Sub-note, The "Sequel" is usually ascribed to Bishop Moss, who was then Bishop Sherlock's Chaplain. P. 214, 1. 2, read "Demonstration." P. 220, note, 1. 11, dele “Twenty Sermons (Fifteen now first printed) 1748," 8vo. P. 221. Mr. Cole observes, "Dr. Salter was one of the tallest men I have seen; well made, brown complexion; and, had not his assurance and talkativeness been so abundant, his parts and ingenuity would have recommended him to the highest preferment." Sir Egerton Brydges refers to Cole's MSS. for more particulars relative to Dr. Salter," of a personal nature.” P. 228, 1. 8, for "they," read "it." P. 261, 1. 9 of note, r. 66 Riesbeck." P. 266. Mr. Farley left two daughters; one of whom was P. 301, 1. 2, r. "illustratum." P.316, note, I. 2, r. “ sis.” 3 E 2 P. 329. Dr. William Cadogan died Feb. 26, 1797. See Gent. Mag. vol. LXVII. p. 352; and a satisfactory account of him in Mr. Chalmers's Biographical Dictionary, vol. X. p. 16. · P. 385. On a mural tablet at Charlcombe, near Bath: "Esteemed and loved, near this place lies Mrs. Sarah Fielding. She died April 9, 1768, aged 60. but her name will be written in the Book of Life." P. 480, 1. 3 from bottom, it is said, Mr. Masters " published a Plan," &c. This would look as if the Plan was a separate publication, whereas it was prefixed to the History.-Mr. Masters died July 5, 1798, æt. 83. A. C. P. 540. The following lines have recently been received from a respectable Friend, with whom, in an important public occupation, I had the pleasure of acting for some years as a Colleague -meminisse juvat - the recollection is pleasant.-"In your Memoirs of Dr. Heathcote," he says, "I observe a quotation of the Doctor's, from Seneca Thyest. Act II. "Stet quicunque volet, &c. &c." which I recollect to have seen quoted before, by that eminent Judge Sir Matthew Hale, in one of his Religious Treatises. He has accompanied it with an English translation; but, as the style and diction of that age would appear uncouth to modern readers, I was tempted to endeavour to put it into a more fashionable dress, and have sent you the specimen.-There is a simplicity and pathos in the original, which, no doubt, made a strong impression, and excited a pensive pleasure, in the mind of this great Lawyer and celebrated Divine; and must ever, think, have the same effect on all persons of a contemplative cast, who peruse the lines, especially on such of us as are hastening fast, after many years of enjoyment, to that "bourne from which no traveller returns." [Dr. Heathcote, in his quotation, omits these three lines: Illi mors gravius incubat Qui notus nimis omnibus Ignotus moritur sibi."] "Plac'd on the slippery heights of Power, Let him stand fast that can ; While sweet repose shall bless my bower, Yet unobserv'd of man. Praising the gently ebbing tide, Life silently goes down; Ah! in soft ease still let it glide, To Potentates unknown. Thus, when my peaceful days are spent, My silver hairs shall tell, How, ripe in years, with calm content, A mild Plebeian fell. Doubly Doubly oppressive are his fears Of Death's terrific frown; Whọ, known to Princes, Courts, and Peers, Dies to himself unknown. J. BRADNEY," P. 646. Mr. Cole says, "Dr. Morell is my old acquaintance; was born, as I take it, at Eton, where at least his mother and sister kept a boarding-house whilst I was at that school; but, by keeping low company, especially of the musical tribe, and writing their operas, and mixing much with them, he let himself down, so as not to be taken notice of in the road to preferment. His great friend, and from whose patronage he expected much, Mons. Des Noyers, Dancing-master, and greatly intimate with Frederick Prince of Wales, died before he could get any thing for him; though a very ingenious, good-tempered man, and a good scholar, but always in debt, and needy, so as frequently to be obliged to abscond. He had a new office created for him in our Antiquary Society about a year or two ago (I write this June 25, 1777), where he is one of the Secretaries. He married a lady of good family, of the name of Barker; but, happily I think, has no issue. One of his best performances (for he is a frequent writer) is Mr. Hogarth's Analysis of Beauty,' which is supposed to have been written by him*." P. 661. Edward Husbands, Esq. in 1720, by giving to the perpetual donative of Little Horkesley in Essex, 2001. obtained for it Queen Anne's bounty; and an estate was consequently purchased at Haningfield, His son, Dr. James Husbands, also left to it, by will, what he thought to be the amount of the small tithes of the parish, about 417. a year. They are thus recorded in the church: "Near this place, under the same marble stone, lie the remains of two excellent persons, Edward Husbands, and Ann his wife. He was the son of Azariah Husbands, Esq. of Little Horkesley, she the daughter of Mr. Thomas Burroughs, of Ipswich. After having lived happily together to a fullness of years, they exchanged this life for a better, and entered upon immortality esteemed and lamented by those who knew them both. She died September 27, 1735, in the 77th year of her age. He January 20, 1736, in the 75th year of his age. They were both righteous before God, and walked in his commandments after such a manner as to be worthy of praise and imitation.” "Near this place lies, expecting the mercy of God, the Rev. James Husbands, LL. D. son of Edward Husbands, Esq. and Ann his wife. He was some time senior fellow of Gonvil and Caius College in Cambridge, six years rector of Fordham, and many years minister of this parish, for which he had a truly pastoral regard; as appears by his last will and testament, the intention whereof, by reason of a legal defect therein, could not be pursued by the executors, but it is hoped will be complied with by those who shall hereafter have it in their power. He was a * It was written by Hogarth, but corrected by Dr. Morell. sound sound and orthodox Divine, of exemplary life, great simplicity of manners, universal benevolence, and extensive charity. He died without issue, 22d of February, 1749, aged 57." P. 678. The Rev. Dr. Henry Barton, Warden of Merton College, Oxford, proceeded M. A. 1740; B. and D. D. 1759; in which year he was elected Warden. He was made King's Chaplain in 1765; and was presented to one of the three Portions of the Vicarage of Bampton in Oxfordshire in 1766. He died July 12, 1790; and is thus recorded in the College Chapel: "Inter Mertonensium lachrymas, Orbitatem suam deflentium, H. S. E. Henricus Barton, S. T. P. Leni atque benigno usus moderamine, Alumnos, qui eum tanquam Parentem suspexerunt, 'quod maximè voluit feliciter consecutus, P. 731. William Creech, Esq. who had been twice Lord Provost of Edinburgh, where for nearly half a century he was known to almost every family, died Jan. 14, 1815, after a gradually increasing illness, with which he was seized about a year before. He was the son of a most respectable Clergyman, the minister of Newbattle. After a very complete classical education, he was, in early life, at different times, on the Continent; and succeeded, in the year 1771, to that part of the business of |